after him, and Ghassān and Ibn Abī Rabāh, who fabricated lies against the Quran. If, in your ignorance, you reject these reports, what will you do with the Quran? How will you contrive to evade it, when from beginning to end it refutes your doctrine and belies your claim? I have even been told—not through an opponent’s report—that you said, “Nothing refutes our claim more decisively than the Quran, but there is no way to reject it except through obstinate reinterpretation.”

This, too, is false in several respects. First, the hadith of Abū Sa‘īd recorded by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim states: “He will then come to them in a form different from that in which they saw Him the first time.” Another wording reads: “In a lesser form than that in which they had seen Him.” This explains the wording in the hadith of